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  • Scientists Uncover Ancient Salt Deposits on Asteroid Ryugu – Was There Water?

    02/19/2025 6:03:49 AM PST · by Red Badger · 23 replies
    Scitech Daily ^ | February 19, 2025 | Kyoto University
    Colorized microscopic image of sodium carbonate deposit on Ryugu sample. Credit: KyotoU/Toru Matsumoto ============================================================================== Deposits Found on a Nearby Asteroid Point to Salty Water in the Outer Solar System Scientists have uncovered salt minerals in samples from asteroid Ryugu, pointing to a past with liquid water. The presence of these salts suggests that Ryugu’s parent body once hosted a warm, saline environment before the water vanished. This discovery could help us understand the role of water in shaping planets and moons across the Solar System. Ryugu’s Salty Secret: What Scientists Found Asteroids that pass near Earth often spark concern about...
  • How On Earth Did Ancient Civilisations Get MERCURY?

    02/01/2024 6:06:28 AM PST · by SunkenCiv · 22 replies
    YouTube ^ | Premiered January 14, 2024 | Chemistorian
    How On Earth Did Ancient Civilisations Get MERCURY? | 13:03Chemistorian | 7.07K subscribers | 255,286 views | Premiered January 14, 2024
  • Threat Matrix: October 2008

    10/06/2008 7:27:37 PM PDT · by nwctwx · 756 replies · 17,403+ views
    FBI Warns of Potential Terror Attacks The FBI and Department of Homeland Security today issued an analytical "note" to U.S. law-enforcement officials cautioning that al-Qaida terrorists have in the past expressed interest in attacking public buildings using a dozen suicide bombers each carrying 20 kilograms of explosives. Authors with the U.S. Office of Intelligence and Analysis added that they have "no credible or specific information that terrorists are planning operations against public buildings in the United States." The FBI and DHS analysts said they were releasing the note because "it is important for local authorities and building owners and...